Of nutraceuticals

MESSINA M, GUGGER E T and ALEKEL D L (2001) Soy protein, soybean isoflavones, and bone health a review of the animal and human data. In Wildman REC, Handbook of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, Boca Raton, CRC Press EEC, 77-98. 

Faulks, R.M. and Southon, S., Carotenoids, metabohsm and disease, in Handbook of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2001. 

Piga, A., Cactus pear a fruit of nutraceutical and functional importance, J. Profess. 

Genomic and molecular tools have made great impacts on plant biotechnology and offer potential for manipulation of carotenoids as natural colorants and also for applications in human and animal health. While microbial and other non-plant systems have been successfully used, plant modification eliminates need for expensive bioreactors and offers economically feasible opportunities for less developed nations for production of nutraceuticals and other chemical products. 

Extraction processes for natural products including the decaffeination of coffee and tea and the isolation of nutraceuticals, flavors, and fragrances... 

Finally, a particularly interesting ongoing challenge will be to understand the potential for do-it-yourself immune stimulation to have unintended consequences. There are now many herbal supplements, functional foods and other over-the-counter products that promise to boost the immune response and most are considered to be safe for use by the general public. Although there is limited published evidence of adverse immune system effects of these materials, some have been associated with autoimmunity [95,96], See chapter 11 for a detailed discussion of the beneficial and potential adverse effects of nutraceuticals and functional foods. 

Kottke, M.K., Scientific and regulatory aspects of nutraceutical products in the United States, Drug Dev Ind Pharm, 24, 1177, 1998. 

Marine organisms represent a valuable source of nutraceuticals and functional compounds. The biodiversity of the marine environment and the associated chemical diversity constitute a practically unlimited resource of novel active substances for the development of bioactive products. Recently, a great deal of interest has been expressed in marine-derived bioactive peptides because of their numerous beneficial health effects. Moreover, several studies have reported that marine bioactive peptides can be used as... 

Bioactive Compounds from Marine Sponges and Their Symbiotic Microbes A Potential Source of Nutraceuticals... 

Aggarwal, . B., Kuiken, M. E. V., Iyer, L. H., Harikumar, . B., and Sung, B. (2009). Molecular targets of nutraceuticals derived from dietary spices Potential role in suppression of inflammation and tumorigenesis. Exp. Biol. Med. 243, 825-849. 

At the same time, it is necessary to realize, as Faulks and Southon (2008) have noted recently, that an increased intake of nutraceuticals via foods may not simply confer specific health benefits. In addition, there may be a more general effect of stimulating changes in homeostasis, which may cumulatively confer health benefits. Furthermore, some other factors, such as individual human variation, gender, age and lifestyle, must also be considered, both in relation to personalized nutrition and in order to identify requirements of specific subgroups for healthy eating . 

Faulks, R.M., Southon, S. (2008). Assessing the bioavailability of nutraceuticals. In Garti, N. (Ed.). Delivery and Controlled Release of Bioactives in Foods and Nutraceuticals. Cambridge, UK Woodhead, pp. 3-25. 

Recent works in the literature were devoted to improve the production of food similar to an existing one that is less dangerous in a compromised diet for the production of functional food or the production of nutraceuticals. 

Many of the extraction, concentration, and purification techniques and equipment used in preparation of nutraceuticals originated in the vegetable oils and proteins processing industries. Byproduct streams often are further purified for this market. 

Wang, L.J. Weller, C.L. 2006. Recent advances in extraction of nutraceuticals from plants. Trends Food Sci. Tech. 17 300-312. 

SHW has also been apphed to the separation of nutraceuticals, natural products, and biochemicals, including the water-soluble vitamins, thiamine, riboflavin, and pyidoxine (Table 18-3) without significant thermal degradation. 

TABLE 18-3. Superheated Water Chromatography of Nutraceuticals and Natural Products... 

M. Pinton, Practical Short Course on Processing of Nutraceuticals/Functional Foods, Pood Protein Research and Development Center, The Texas A M University, College Station, Texas, Chapter 16, 1998. 

Institute of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods Department of Food Sciences and Nutrition Laval University Laval, Quebec, Canada... 

The major group of nutraceuticals are of endogenous origin, being natural products responsible for... 

Demographic surveys of many alternative or complementary medicines have been conducted in a range of locations, but there is usually a problem in clearly defining and categorizing individual types of product however, the usual outcome of these surveys is that the typical patient is middle-aged, middle-income, and female. One recent survey carried out in Washington State, United States, on patients aged 50-76 established the prevalence of their medical conditions, and prevalence of use of a number of nutraceuticals by both men (n = 29,435) and women (n = 32,152). Table 3 outlines the incidence of diseases treated with nutraceuticals. 

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